December 10, 1924
Society for Human Rights
The first recognized gay-rights organization in the U.S. is founded in Chicago by
German immigrant Henry Gerber. The society receives a charter from the state
of Illinois and producesFriendship and Freedom, the f

THE ROAD TO EQUALITY
Ever since the movement for human rights began, homosexual men and women have been
fighting tirelessly for the entitlements that they deserve. Its written in our countrys founding that every
individual has a right to life, liberty and

Reading Response #6: Salman Rushie, Book Two
Salman Rushdies Midnight Children could be describe any way but straightforward.
The common flowing narrative is taken and turned into a raging cacophony of history and
tragedy. Often, this novel is anything an

Reading Response #5: Jesmyn Ward, The Twelfth Day
To this point of Jesmyn Wards novel, Salvage the Bones, a foreboding storm of
conflict and struggle has been forming through the conflicts between characters, tragedies
befalling them, and the steady loss

Reading Response #3: Jesmyn Ward, The Fifth Day
To describe Jemsyn Wards Salvage the Bones as a raw would be a scathing
understatement. Her words are as unforgiving and impacting as the environment and events that
shape her characters lives. The story det

Response #2: Fun Home, The Canary-Colored Caravan of Death
Theres something to be said about the content that Bechdel weaves into her graphic
novel to make it so raw. To be more specific, Im referring to the way she presents the events,
locations, and fig

Response #1: Junot Diaz, Aguatando
In the fourth chapter of Drown, Diaz manages to take our already aching hearts and
completely tear them to shreds even more as he expands on events before Juniors father enters
the scene again. We learn a great deal more

Part I. Short Essay: Argument (344 Words)
Big business and economy has always been a particularly bright flame in cinema,
attracting heroes and villains like moths. The Wolf of Wall Street is a film that not only entrances
the viewer and takes them on an

Reading Response #7: Salman Rushdie, Book Two
Book two of Salman Rushdies Midnight Children has just come to a close in a literal
and figurative cataclysmic turn of events. Once again the madness of a country is matched and
expressed seamlessly through Ru

When we started working on this project, we werent sure what we were going to do.
Weve covered a lot of different stuff in Sex & Gender, so we had a really broad range of things
to try to choose from. We wanted something about sociology that was relatable

This project took as a little while to get started. At first we werent sure what we were
going to do because of how many things weve talked about in class. The lectures that weve
gone over have covered everything from the way women dress to the how messed

Hannibal is an American psychological thrillerhorror television series developed by Bryan
Fuller for NBC.
The series is based on characters and elements appearing in the novel Red Dragon by Thomas
Harris.
It focuses on the relationship between FBI special

Short Essay 1: Argument
Junot Diaz wrote her novel or collection of short stories, however youd like to classify it,
Drown, in an intentionally vague manner. This is the case in the chapters Drown, Boyfriend,
and Edison, New Jersey, where the identity of